Cydia's web server is currently offline due to a billing SNAFU. It will be back online iwthin a couple house. There is nothing to worry about, this is a very short lived outage. Please be calm, and please... PLEASE.... do not send me any more e-mail about it. I have change dmy DNS in such a manner that my repository is liekly online.

I wish Installer 4.0 was more popular just because of this. I do not even have Installer 4.0 installed because it lacks many packages. Nevertheless, from the design point of view, it is very close to the AppStore, for which any application installer should strive. It's easy to use and has a good looking GUI.

Cydia is 40MiB of crap. Granted, the GNU sub-system is nice, for those that need it, but it should not be a requirement for an iPhone application installer. I understand why he did not want to reinvent the wheel, like Installer, but out of all the Linux package managers, he chose one of the most complicated, if not the most complicated one. .deb packages are easy on Linux from the user's point of view, but from the developer's point of view, they are utter nightmare. They are very complicated to create. I have done a few and hated every minute of it. There are dirt-simple and robust ones like Pacman.

Cydia's GUI is a miserable failure. The developers must read the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines. It's pathetic. Not only that it is ugly and badly designed, but it also is frustrating to use. 'Loading Data', 'Reloading Data', screens are annoying, it makes the application very slow. Even on Linux, repository updates are done once a day or at N hours. They are not even done at every application restart. Doing repository updates after every operation is idiotic. OpenSuse were berated for doing it at every application restart. They would have been lynched if they did it after every operation.

App pages should be generated from the package itself, we are using a package manager after all, not from random internet web pages with ads. It makes them inconsistent. Did the ads help you keep the servers up? No. Ads in a package manager is horrible. They also contain more information that 99.99% of the user need to see.

Another GUI failure is the installation. Do I need to see dpkg output in the installation screen as if I have installed from the console on Linux? No. This is the iPhone. It's supposed to be sexy. It's supposed to have a nice progress bar. It's supposed to have a nice GUI. Give me a nice installation. Reuse the AppStore-style installation that brings you back to he SpringBoard and shows the application icon with a progress bar, or do it with a queue like Installer.

Speaking of installation, just because the main Cydia server is down, nothing installs from any repository? If you try to install anything, you will get tens of failure pop-ups instead of just one. Not deb-based package manager behaves like that. If a repository is down, obviously, the packages from that repository won't install. But, packages from other repositories do install.

Lastly, why do we need a package manager after all? Why introduce dependency hell. Why can't 3rd party applications be in the for of .IPA files and be self-contained like the ones from the AppStore.

I wish Installer 4.0 was more popular just because of this. I do not even have Installer 4.0 installed because it lacks many packages. Nevertheless, from the design point of view, it is very close to the AppStore, for which any application installer should strive. It's easy to use and has a good looking GUI.

Cydia is 40MiB of crap. Granted, the GNU sub-system is nice, for those that need it, but it should not be a requirement for an iPhone application installer. I understand why he did not want to reinvent the wheel, like Installer, but out of all the Linux package managers, he chose one of the most complicated, if not the most complicated one. .deb packages are easy on Linux from the user's point of view, but from the developer's point of view, they are utter nightmare. They are very complicated to create. I have done a few and hated every minute of it. There are dirt-simple and robust ones like Pacman.

Cydia's GUI is a miserable failure. The developers must read the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines. It's pathetic. Not only that it is ugly and badly designed, but it also is frustrating to use. 'Loading Data', 'Reloading Data', screens are annoying, it makes the application very slow. Even on Linux, repository updates are done once a day or at N hours. They are not even done at every application restart. Doing repository updates after every operation is idiotic. OpenSuse were berated for doing it at every application restart. They would have been lynched if they did it after every operation.

App pages should be generated from the package itself, we are using a package manager after all, not from random internet web pages with ads. It makes them inconsistent. Did the ads help you keep the servers up? No. Ads in a package manager is horrible. They also contain more information that 99.99% of the user need to see.

Another GUI failure is the installation. Do I need to see dpkg output in the installation screen as if I have installed from the console on Linux? No. This is the iPhone. It's supposed to be sexy. It's supposed to have a nice progress bar. It's supposed to have a nice GUI. Give me a nice installation. Reuse the AppStore-style installation that brings you back to he SpringBoard and shows the application icon with a progress bar, or do it with a queue like Installer.

Speaking of installation, just because the main Cydia server is down, nothing installs from any repository? If you try to install anything, you will get tens of failure pop-ups instead of just one. Not deb-based package manager behaves like that. If a repository is down, obviously, the packages from that repository won't install. But, packages from other repositories do install.

Lastly, why do we need a package manager after all? Why introduce dependency hell. Why can't 3rd party applications be in the for of .IPA files and be self-contained like the ones from the AppStore.

Why make things complicated?

LMAO - Don't become the joke of the forum. If Cydia bothers you so much, simply uninstall it and stay with installer.